Administration Quote by Leonard Downie, Jr

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

— Andrew Zimmern

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have abused their power in conducting unduly aggressive surveillance and other investigation of members…

— Andrew McCarthy

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

— Rush Limbaugh

“While a major focus of this book is fear mongering by journalists and others, throughout the chapters that follow I take note as well…

— Barry Glassner

Of course [the White House press corps] are a factor, and the reason is they're not media. They happen to pretend or portray people…

— Rush Limbaugh

Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a…

— Dee Dee Myers

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside…

— Dee Dee Myers

It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of…

— Glenn Greenwald

My experience of the press has always been one of fear. They make me nervous and scared.

— Ulrika Jonsson

It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.

— Glenn Greenwald

Since the Donald Trump election, which has involved this administration making direct attacks on press freedoms, you're actually seeing a certain amount of rallying…

— David Simon

We're definitely in an era where the government wants to keep more secrets and it wants to come after anyone who's exposing those secrets…

— Laura Poitras